Two gun battles took place Friday night with deputies in the beachside community of Isla Vista before a black BMW crashed into a parked car. Deputies found the shooter dead with a gunshot wound to the head, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether he was killed by gunfire or if he committed suicide. A semi-automatic handgun was recovered from the scene near the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Rodger is the son of Philip Rodger, an assistant director of The Hunger Games.A lawyer says the Rodger family called police several weeks ago after being alarmed by YouTube videos “regarding suicide and the killing of people.”